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> From: Greg Austin <[email protected]>
> Date: March 18, 2010 9:56:07 AM PDT
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [email protected]
>
> Hi Umit Catalyurek:
>
> Thank you for providing the opportunity to submit information  
> regarding healthcare informatics development  to the 1st  
> International Health Informatics Symposium.
>
> As a BayCHI member, an independent researcher and inventor, I am  
> interested in submitting a paper and prototypic example of the  
> careMerge user-centered healthcare informatics guidelines.   
> Revealing these guidelines may generally benefit the field of  
> healthcare, since I have already discovered many great facts  
> regarding user-centered design of healthcare informatics as the  
> science is applied to the actual practice of healthcare.
>
> However, I must question my own motivation to reveal this  
> intellectual property. I must be certain that if I reveal the method  
> and rationale behind the careMerge method of user-centered design  
> that this will indeed benefit humankind, and will not merely be  
> hoarded to the benefit of very few individuals through their pre- 
> established corporations designed to own the work of others.
>
> This concern is not unfounded, since the fact that papers submitted  
> by willing participants that are intended to be revealed to the  
> public are to be received through the EasyChair secure website; the  
> fact that a secure website is being employed to receive these papers  
> indicates a level of control over IP not that of the participants  
> ourselves. If we participants submit papers revealing our IP to an  
> opaque secure website that is scrutinized by corporations with  
> everything to gain by claiming these properties as their own, how  
> can we be assured that this information submitted will be properly  
> screened, credited to those who have done the work, and employed for  
> the betterment of humanity?
>
> Again, thank you for the opportunity, and your anticipated response  
> to my concerns over submitting IP to the symposium.
>
> Greg Austin
> [email protected]

Greg Austin
[email protected]
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